The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 15
Thought the royal prince: “This false ascetic does not take it into his reckoning that I am a royal prince, but does honor to animals.”
Who acts: false ascetic, I, ascetic · What happens: think, not take, be, honor, reckon · To what, where: royal prince, food, reckoning · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (false ascetic, I, ascetic), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 3 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 prince | amod |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Thought | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
| 7 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 ascetic | det |
| 8 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ascetic | amod |
| 9 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | nsubj |
| 10 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 take | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 take | advmod |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Thought | ccomp |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 take | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 reckoning | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 reckoning | nmod:poss |
| 16 | reckoning | reckoning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 prince | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 prince | nsubj |
| 19 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 prince | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 prince | det |
| 21 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 prince | amod |
| 22 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reckoning | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 honor | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 honor | cc |
| 25 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 honor | aux |
| 26 | honor | honor | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 take | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 animals | case |
| 28 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 honor | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the royal prince | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent prince=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not take in a quote | present · do-support | this false ascetic | food | ascetic's reckoning | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into reckoning=Destination | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | I | a royal prince | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | honor in a quote | present · do-support | this false ascetic not said here | to animals | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | reckon in a quote | ascetic | nom reckoning «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Project Gutenberg book 74064 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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